单词 | milkweed |
释义 | milkweed (once / 26681 pages) n WORD FAMILY milkweed: milkweeds USAGE EXAMPLESMonarchs lay their eggs exclusively on milkweed, which provides nectar for adult butterflies and imbues feeding caterpillars with a toxin that protects them from birds. Washington Times(Nov 20, 2016) The waystations will have native milkweed plants for use as breeding habitat and sunflower seeds for nutrition. Washington Times(Nov 18, 2016) The butterflies’ numbers have dwindled sharply in recent years, as milkweed declined in the United States and deforestation affected their Mexican habitat. New York Times(Nov 17, 2016) 1n any of numerous plants of the genus Asclepias having milky juice and pods that split open releasing seeds with downy tufts Syn|Hypo|Hyper silkweed Asclepias albicans, white milkweed tall herb with leafless white waxy stems and whitish starlike flowers; southwestern United States Asclepias curassavica, blood flower, swallowworttropical herb having orange-red flowers followed by pods suggesting a swallow with outspread wings; a weed throughout the tropics Asclepias exaltata, poke milkweedmilkweed of the eastern United States with leaves resembling those of pokeweed Asclepias incarnata, swamp milkweeddensely branching perennial of the eastern United States with white to crimson or purple flowers Asclepia meadii, Asclepias meadii, Mead's milkweedmilkweed of central North America; a threatened species Asclepias purpurascens, purple silkweedperennial of eastern North America having pink-purple flowers Asclepias speciosa, showy milkweedmilkweed of southern North America having large starry purple and pink flowers Asclepias subverticillata, horsetail milkweed, poison milkweedmilkweed of southwestern United States and Mexico; poisonous to livestock Asclepias tuberosa, Indian paintbrush, butterfly weed, chigger flower, chiggerflower, orange milkweed, pleurisy root, tuber rooterect perennial of eastern and southern United States having showy orange flowers Asclepias verticillata, whorled milkweedmilkweed of the eastern United States with narrow leaves in whorls and greenish-white flowers herb, herbaceous plant a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests 2n annual Eurasian sow thistle with soft spiny leaves and rayed yellow flower heads Syn|Hyper Sonchus oleraceus milk thistle, sow thistle any of several Old World coarse prickly-leaved shrubs and subshrubs having milky juice and yellow flowers; widely naturalized; often noxious weeds in cultivated soil |
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